CAMDEN Restaurants operating in a pandemic have had to make enormous changes in order to stay afloat. Gabriela Acero and Derek Richard, a couple featured in our recent story “
wolfpeach, a new chophouse with a Maine twist, to open in Camden,” have reviewed their original restaurant plans under these circumstances. Their restaurant, wolfpeach, has not yet opened. Instead, they have decided to kick off their grand opening this spring as a barbeque joint until the industry inches back to normal.
“We knew that wolfpeach wasn’t going to work without doing indoor dining,” said Acero. “Originally, we planned on offering wolfpeach’s food as a take-out model, but we decided it would be more practical to offer modified barbeque takeout as a temporary placeholder until we feel it s truly safe to open for indoor dining.”
THOMASTON The Williams Brazier Post 37 will return to serving a monthly to-go supper for members and the local community, beginning with the annual Auxiliary Unit 37 St. Patrick’s Day Supper. Throughout 2021 the monthly to-go suppers will continue.
The new mandate from Gov. Greg Abbott allows businesses to make their own decisions regarding masks. Almost immediately the tension was evident on social media platforms; who’s going to require masks and who’s not? The fallout could be a patchwork of protocols, different from door to door along the same sidewalk.
If this were a normal year, we’d just be pushing back from the table after the ten-day eating orgy that is usually Denver Restaurant Week. But this isn’t any normal year.
On March 5, 2020, five days after the finale of last year’s Denver Restaurant Week the sixteenth annual celebration of the city’s culinary scene designed to coincide with a slow time of year for restaurants Colorado registered its first COVID-19 case. By March 17, all restaurants across the state had been ordered closed for anything other than takeout and delivery. In late May, most were able to reopen their dining rooms at very limited capacity levels, but it’s been a tough, tough time for the dining industry.
There were several changes to the restaurant scene in Lancaster County during the month of February.
In total, four new restaurants opened up shop, five announced their future plans for locations in the county, and four closed down permanently.
Here are the restaurants that opened in Lancaster County in February
A new
Dominoâs has opened near Mount Joy in the Donegal Square shopping center. The carryout and delivery pizza restaurant takes a 2,000-square-foot space at 2101A Strickler Road, opposite Hamilton Inn & Suites in the shopping center near routes 283 and 230.
The owners of
El Cubano, who have a Cuban food restaurant in Lancaster Township and a stand in Lancaster Central Market, opened another restaurant in February in downtown Lancaster. The new El Cubano occupies a spot at 60 N. Queen St.